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From the be careful what you would like for after which howl about for fifteen months file: after regular conservative carping for the mainstream media to “duvet” Benghazi, the New York Times issued an exhaustive file declaring no proof of al Qaeda involvement, and arguing that the attack was an area militia group inflamed through an American anti-Muslim video, which is basically the place we have been on Benghazi fifteen months ago.
This complicates a lot of Benghazi theories, comparable to the fact that there are Benghazi theories. Here’s Consultant Darrell Issa (R-Partial Transcript), basically pronouncing, “Al Qaeda, no al Qaeda, what distinction does it make how four Americans died?”:
In case that didn’t pole vault the tragedy-farce hole fast sufficient for you, Issa also said that he couldn’t be held liable for his previous statements blaming al Qaeda because he didn’t have get right of entry to to the labeled security recordsdata the Home Intelligence Committee would have. In Congress, having handiest partial intelligence is referred to as “getting Issaed.”
In the meantime, Home Intel Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Shhhh), confirms that you probably have all that labeled information that he can’t share with you, you’ll absolutely come to his conclusion—which, curiously, can also be his resolution on anything else NSA-associated. Incidentally, if you happen to’re a kind of people who can’t figure out why everyone will get into a tizzy about this surveillance stuff, the “I’m proper, however it’s categorized” solution has a large part to do with it.
Good day, this was an incredible previous peanut butter cup:
Jonathan Karl is the interview identical of a relief pitcher who walks each different batter on 5 pitches—he let Donald Trump get away with birther nonsense in the summertime of 2013—and even he can’t purchase what Senator Ted Cruz (R-Fauxbuster Blues) is promoting.
Over in Media Buzzland, Howard Kurtz concedes that the media perhaps will most likely get around to reporting on some certain Obamacare tales, he guesses, as that’s kinda a part of the story of how Obama’s large silly legislation for jerks is functioning. Then he requested Kirsten Powers if she notion the media was once piling on the president to make up for their prior lickspittletude, and she looked at him like he used to be a dumb-dumb.
George Stephanopoulos named his entire hour-long 2013 retrospective after Sport Alternate. He must not double down on that. #thistown
Final, credit score where credit score’s due: damned if David Gregory didn’t have a exact, centered, and somewhat incendiary express (he even obtained a theological spat out of the hour!). Like a big different who gets their act together upon whiff of a breakup speak, in all probability Gregory whipped himself into form following tales of his rumored loss of life. If that is so, NBC will have to threaten to fireplace him each Sunday morning at 8:45 a.m.
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